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Mining & the mines, 1933

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By-products From Coal. Tests of the Lyons Process

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 13

The committee appointed by the Government to investigate Messrs. Lyons Brothers' process for the extraction of oil and other byproducts from coal submitted a further report…

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Claim Staked on Gold -Bearing Wicket at Home Rule

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 6

MUDGEE, Monday. -- When Home Rule met Cooyal yesterday at cricket, E. James, of the Home Rule team, tripped over some…

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Explosion in Mine 3000 Feet Down; Man Carries Mate One May Die

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 9

Drilling 3000 feet down in Balmain Coal Mine late yesterday two men were seriously injured by an…

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Coal Exports. Shipments from Newcastle. £66,494 Decrease in 1932. NEWCASTLE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 15

The total exports of coal during 1932 from Newcastle to oversea and interstate destinations, as revealed in statistics made available this afternoon by Mr. A. H. Gibson, Newcastle…

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Back on Gold Standard at La Perouse Eight Sovereigns Dug From Sand

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 9

WITHIN an hour of a child unearthing a sovereign at La Perouse, yesterday, 50 men, including aborigines, were digging…

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Billabong Gold

The World's News · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 28

THE waterbole!" she gasped again. "It's our only chance." Suddenly the girl's foot…

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Wonthaggi Miners on Strike

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 13

BECAUSE the management at the Victorian State Coalmine at Wonthaggi departed from the long-established principle of allotting bords in the mine, the…

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Lithgow District Mining

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 13

Our Lithgow correspondent reports that the revival of mining activity in the district was reflected at the Oberon Mining Warden's Court, when seven prospectors were given…

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Oil From Coal in Cardiff

Construction and Real Estate Journal · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 12

The City of Cardiff has been engaged on tests with oil produced from Welsh coal for use in the corporation’s motor buses. According to a recent report by the manager of the…

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Kilkivan : The Empires Only Quicksilver Mine

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 2

Situated in the South Burnett district, nearly 150 miles north of Brisbane by rail, is Kilkivan, a little township which can boast of possessing an asset which no other town in Australasia or in the British Empire has, and that is a quicksilver mine…

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Porkobidni says.. Locomotives waste coal fuel

The World's News · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 5

IN many lands today scientists and inventors are…

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Miners Trapped Nearly Drowned in Tunnel Goulburn

The Sun · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 11

Three gold prospectors narrowly escaped drowning during a violent thunderstorm at Tirrannaville, five miles from Goulburn, late yesterday…

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Coal Shipments. 43,926 Tons for Week

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 4

The quantity of coal, including bunkers, shipped at Newcastle during the week ended January 19, for places beyond the State was 43,926 tons, of…

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Money, Mines and Markets City Gossip Hotel Metropole Midland Railway

The Sun · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 5

Hotel Metropole Raises Dividend Hotel Metropole Ltd., is evidently doing improved business. Directors of the company have…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, Jan. 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 12

The price of gold to-day was £6/1/7 an ounce fine, compared with £6/2/7 yesterday. LADY BATLEY…

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West Aust. Wealth From Gold. Over 4 Millions for Output

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 3

FIND gold produced in. Western Australia and received at the Perth Mint during 1932 amounted to 601,674 oz. (showing an increase of 92,829 oz…

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High Price of Old Gold Tempts Thieves Housebreakers in the Suburbs

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 1

EVIDENCE that expert gangs of house thieves are at work in many suburbs is supplied by reports of robberies…

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Gold on Cricket Pitch. Ounce Nugget Found During Match. GULGONG

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 12

The finding of an ounce nugget of gold on a cricket pitch at Home Rule by E. James, of the Home Rule club, has set many people in that locality searching for the precious metal…

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Sprinkled with Gold Nuggets. Rush to Great New Field in Eastern Africa

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 15

A river bank where gold "was sprinkled as if from a pepperpot" was found by Sir Albert Kitson, the geologist, whose interim report on his investigations in the…

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Irish Coal. the Arigna Mine

The Catholic Press · Thursday 26 January 1933 · page 5

The "Sydney Morning Herald" says that there is no coal in Ireland. We publish, therefore, from the "Irish Independent," the story of a visit to the Arigna mine,…

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